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  2. Seppuku - Wikipedia

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    The word jigai (自害) means "suicide" in Japanese. The modern word for suicide is jisatsu (自殺); related words include jiketsu (自決), jijin (自尽) and jijin (自刃). [14] In some popular western texts, such as martial arts magazines, the term is associated with the suicide of samurai wives. [15]

  3. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Kermit (suicide) To commit suicide, usually via falling from a great height Humorous: Originated from a remixed video of Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street and a Kermit the Frog doll falling off a building. [15] Kick the bucket [2] To die Informal In suicidal hanging. [16] Also 'kick off' . [1] Kick the calendar To die Slang, informal Polish ...

  4. Shinjū - Wikipedia

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    Shinjū is a Japanese term meaning "double suicide", used in common parlance to refer to any group suicide of two or more individuals bound by love, typically lovers, parents and children, and even whole families. A double suicide without consent is called muri-shinjū (無理心中) and it is considered as a sort of murder–suicide.

  5. List of massacres in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Imperial Japanese Army, police and vigilantes 6,000+ Multiple incidents, including the Fukuda Village Incident: May 1928: Kobe shooting: Kobe: Chinese man 7 [13]-12 [14] (including the perpetrator) 11 or 7 Japanese were shot to death by a Chinese man in Kobe in revenge for the Jinan incident and then he committed suicide [14] [13] 5 June 1931

  6. Glossary of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    seppuku (切腹) – honorable ritual suicide. Also called hara-kiri. One of the death penalties which respected a samurai's honor. The belly was ceremonially cut and an assistant then cut the head from the back. Suicide allowed a samurai to keep his honor because it was considered dishonorable for a samurai to be killed by others.

  7. Japanese actress Sei Ashina found dead in her Tokyo ... - AOL

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    Japanese actress Sei Ashina has died at age 36, her agency confirmed in a statement. Ashina was born in Fukushima in 1983. In 2007 she was cast as the Japanese lead in “Silk,” an arthouse ...

  8. List of death deities - Wikipedia

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    Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead; Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld

  9. Jōhatsu - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, quitting a company is seen as shameful in Japanese culture. Suicide, working to death , and becoming jōhatsu are thus potential outcomes. It can also spare the family the high costs that can be associated with suicide (e.g. debts, cleanup fees, and disruption-of-service fees in the context of platform jumpers). [2]